EMBEDDED ARM DEVELOPMENT USING ECLIPSE AND GCC - PART1
Set up tools for Embedded ARM Development
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Eclipse installation on window is very simple. Download the setup and unzip it. Just extract the file. Eclipse needs JAVA to run.
If your computer has java installed already, you can check it, by typing following at command prompt

java - version

This command will return version of JAVA installed on your PC.

If java is not installed then it could be installed from following location…
Download JAVA

There is nothing special in eclipse installation, just extract the zip file in appropriate window drive like C drive.
As a result a folder in the name of Eclipse will be created.
To run the eclipse open C:/eclipse/eclipse.exe file from eclipse folder.

Before start eclipse workspace launcher will ask you to choose a place to store your projects

Here you can give path as per your choice. My choice is c:\myarmwork directory.

After that following screen will appear.

Now we can directly go to workbench by clicking on the following button:

Finally below is the look of eclipse ide.

Now if you are able to see this window means that you have successfully installed the Eclipse IDE.
Now next step is making eclipse ready for embedded system debugging. For that Zylin AS has updated eclipse CDT to support GDB embedded debugging.

Every student and hobbyist always looks for free software development tools. In Embedded System field we have so many free and open source tools for different microcontrollers. For example he have free tools for ARM, 8051, PIC, POWER (formally PowerPC) etc. In this article we will discuss software development tools for ARM processor family. The tools which we will discuss here are also used professionals.

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Here is the list of tools which are used by us:

» ECLIPSE IDE
» GNU TOOLS (GCC, GDB ETC)

As all we know that GNU tools are available for Linux platform. But precompiled GNU tools for window are also available. We should thanks to Mr. Michael Fischer - Germany for their efforts to provide us GNU tools for windows. Special thing of tools provided by Mr. Michael Fischer is that, these tools do not require cygwin to work. Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com ) is linux environment on windows OS. If we want to use gcc for window then we need to install eclipse first. But in tools provided by MR. Michael Fischer, there is no need of cygwin.

His toolchain name is YAGARTO. Our article based on the same toolchain.

To Install this you just need internet on your PC.

This article is given in following parts

Part 1: Installation of Eclipse

Part 2: Installation of CDT Plugin, Open Onchip Debugger and Yagarto Tools